[librish]

This seems weird. If not having personalized ads is such a fundamental piece of the EU web experience, why is it even allowed in the first place?

Payment options:

Paid only - allowed Paid OR Personalized Ads - not allowed Paid OR Personalized Ads OR Non-Personalized Ads - allowed

[MyFedora]

Because it's an extortion fee to get access to rights you're already supposed to have. Every pay or consent prompt asks you to pay a ridiculous sum of money, much more than they earn from tracking you.

They force people who don't want to be tracked to involuntarily consent to tracking, which happens to be the overwhelming majority of people, according to pay or consent providers themselves.

It's also designed to rob people who pay to not get tracked, even though the entire scheme is illegal anyways.

This would be a non-issue if providers would charge how much they earn from tracking you in return for not tracking you. But alas, they want to earn more money.

[pjc50]

The EU "ban ad tracking entirely" faction isn't quite strong enough to achieve that, so we get this long slow grind of trying to eliminate the business model for ad tracking piece by piece.